The Time Of Truce Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDBB EEFG EEHH EEII FGEE| Two young lads from childhood up | A |
| Drank together friendship's cup | A |
| Joe was glad with Bill at play | B |
| Bill was home to Joe alway | C |
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| On their friendship came the blight | D |
| Of a little thoughtless fight | D |
| Then alas each passing day | B |
| Farther bore these friends away | B |
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| There was grief in either heart | E |
| Bleeding deep from sorrow's dart | E |
| When in thoughtfulness again | F |
| Each beheld the other's pain | G |
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| But the shades of night are furled | E |
| When the morning takes the world | E |
| And the Christmas days of peace | H |
| Make our little quarrels cease | H |
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| Bill and Joe on Christmas Day | E |
| Met as in the olden way | E |
| Bill put out his hand to Joe | I |
| It was Christmas Day you know | I |
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| Bill and Joe are friends again | F |
| And to them long years remain | G |
| Time may take them far away | E |
| They keep Christmas every day | E |
Michael Earls
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